CNN transcript: Juror B-37 talks about the Zimmerman verdict

One of only six individuals who knows what it's like to decide George Zimmerman's fate, one of the six members of the jury that acquitted him, Juror B-37; at her request, we're concealing her identity. For the first time anywhere, she's speaking out.

She's the first juror to do so, to speak out publicly, the first to talk about how she saw the powerful testimony that all of us saw, which testimony resonated with her and the other jurors, which evidence persuaded her and the other five women on the panel.

What happened inside that jury room, what does she think really happened the night George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin?

There's that, whether she thinks race played a role and a lot more. Here's part one of our exclusive conversation.

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COOPER: When you first sat down in the jury, when you first gathered together, what was it like?

Did you know how big this --

JUROR: It was unreal. It was unreal. It was like -- it was like something that -- why would they want to pick me? Why would I be picked over all these hundreds of people that they interviewed?

COOPER: And when the trial started, what was the first day like? There were the opening statements. Don West told a joke, what did you think of that?

JUROR: The joke was horrible. I just -- nobody got it. I didn't get it until later, and then I thought about it. And I'm like, I guess that could have been funny, but not in the con" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="234">